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10,231 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

cougar: cougar (an older woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men)
cougar: alternative spelling of couguar (“cougar”)
couguar: cougar (Puma concolor)
couic: (to express sudden death or destruction)
couille: nut, ball, bollock (testicle)
couille dans le potage: a fly in the ointment
couille dans le pâté: turd in the punchbowl (fly in the ointment)
couille de mammouth: gobstopper, jawbreaker (type of candy)
couille molle: pansy, chickenshit (person with little courage or bravery)
couilles: plural of couille (“ball, testicle”); balls; courage, bravery
couillette: little testicle; dispenser cap; mistake, error
couillon: fucking stupid; foolish; silly
couillon: testicle; dickhead, bastard, pillock; coward; a Belgian card game also played in Limburg and on the border of Luxemburg and Germany; joker, funny person; nut, nutter
couillonner: to trick; to joke
couillu: having testicles; ballsy; brave; courageous
couiner: to creak, squeak; to squeal, squeak
couiquer: to kill (intentionally)
coulage: casting (of metal etc); shrinkage (loss of stock due to theft)
coulamment: fluidly
coulant: loop; napkin ring
coulant: flowing; fluid
coulante: diarrhoea
coulement: flow (of liquid); slip, skid, slide, slither
couler: to sink; to cast (metal); to pour (liquid); to flow, to run; to slip, to skid; to shed (i.e. shed blood); to go bankrupt
couler de source: to be obvious, self-evident
couler un bronze: to defecate
couleur: color/colour; a flush; suit; tincture, colour
couleuvre: serpent; grass snake, garter snake
couleuvre d'Esculape: Aesculapian snake (Zamenis longissimus, syn. Coluber longissimus)
couleuvre à collier: grass snake (Natrix natrix)
couleuvrine: culverin
coulis: coulis (sauce); melted metal used to fix a joint
coulis: flowing; running
coulissant: sliding
coulisse: coulisse (piece of timber); side of a stage, dressing room; slide or rail on which a drawer or window slides; background; underslide, underslide channel
coulisseau: A slider, sliding mechanism
coulisser: to slide
coulissier: stockbroker
couloir: corridor, hallway; aisle (in an airliner); slipstream
couloir humanitaire: humanitarian corridor
coulomb: coulomb
coulombien: coulombic, electric
coulommiers: a soft ripened cow cheese from Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne
coulométrie: coulometry
coulpe: guilt, sin
coulée: flow, flowing; stream (flow)
coulée de boue: mudslide
coulée verte: greenway (corridor of land for recreational use, often as bicycle path)
coumaphène: warfarin
coumarine: coumarin
coumarique: coumaric
coumarou: coumarou (Dipteryx odorata)
counoise: a black grape variety from the Rhône valley in France; a red wine (often blended) made from that grape
country: country music
country alternative: alternative country
coup: blow, hit, strike; fast and instantaneous action; load, shot; bit (small quantity); planned action
coup bas: blow below the belt, low blow (unfair or illegal blow that lands below the opponent’s waist); low blow, cheap shot (any attack that is considered unfair or unscrupulous)
coup d'arrêt: stop, halt
coup d'envoi: kick-off; unveiling, opening (of an event, for example)
coup d'essai: first try, first attempt, dummy run